@rms: What concrete things did you work on? Were you writing papers, or coding AI, or...? The Singularity seems like such a broad area of study, how do you gauge progress or even decide what to work on?
Usually the way of gauging process is that people come up with specific goals and then either meet those goals or don't meet them. I didn't have a whole lot of goals, which means that whatever it is that I did accomplish was higher than my expectations.
I would recommend that other people go in with high expectations of accomplishing things.
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@rms: What concrete things did you work on? Were you writing papers, or coding AI, or...? The Singularity seems like such a broad area of study, how do you gauge progress or even decide what to work on?
See http://singinst.org/accomplishments2009 for some of the stuff that we work on.
I think my answer here answers your question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1363449
Usually the way of gauging process is that people come up with specific goals and then either meet those goals or don't meet them. I didn't have a whole lot of goals, which means that whatever it is that I did accomplish was higher than my expectations.
I would recommend that other people go in with high expectations of accomplishing things.